Emerging Partner of the Year

This award recognises the emerging Xero accounting or bookkeeping partner who demonstrates the potential to deliver increasing value added services to their clients in 2018 from January 2016 to September 2017.

Criteria

New Xero Partner or below Silver status prior to 2017

Certification - demonstrated commitment to increasing percentage of total staff that are Xero certified.

App Partner of the Year

The winning app partner will have demonstrated a high-level of customer satisfaction and commercial success from January 2016 to September 2017. We’ll also look for continuous improvement in areas like customer care, design, quality, functionality and technical innovation.

Criteria

Be commercially available (no Beta versions).

Have variable users on both Xero and own product (organisations connected).

Be over one year old (as at 31 December 2016).

Technical: design, quality and ongoing improvement of integration to the API and Xero products.

Emerging App Partner of the Year

Presented to the emerging app partner who demonstrates a high-level of customer satisfaction and commercial success. We will look for excellence in areas such as customer care, design quality, functionality and technical innovation.

Qualifying criteria: Integrated with the Xero API in 2016 between 1 January 2016 and December 2016.

Criteria

Be commercially available (no Beta versions).

Have variable users on both Xero and own product (organisations connected).

Evidence of technical excellence, both in own product and in integration with the Xero API.

Business excellence: easy to work with, great customer feedback, customer advocacy.

Industry Specific App of the Year

The winning app partner will have addressed the needs of a distinct industry and demonstrated a high level of customer satisfaction and commercial success from January 2016 to August 2017. We’ll also look for continuous improvement in areas like customer care, design, quality, functionality and technical innovation.

Criteria

Proven to have substantially benefitted customer/member organisations by introducing new ways of working.

Demonstrated high level of customer satisfaction and commercial success.

Example of a service offering or campaign that has added significant value to customers in a distinct industry.

Demonstrate another aspect (customer care, etc) of the organisation that adds clear value to customers/ members.

Xero Most Valued Professional Award

Chosen by the Xero team, the winner is someone who they believe has had the most impact on the accountancy profession during 2017. Usually an accountant (though not necessarily), the winner is likely to have impacted on the working lives of accountants over the course of the year. The winner will have shown evidence of leadership, determination and clarity of thought.

This award is not open to entry

Criteria

1. Evidence of strategic thinking behind service offering, business model and marketing strategy.